Lisa Kudrow Says She Was Known As ‘The Sixth Friend’ in Hollywood Circles: ‘Nobody Cared About Me’

She may have delivered some of Friends’ most iconic one-liners, but Lisa Kudrow she often felt like an afterthought compared to her costars, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and the late Matthew Perry.

“Nobody cared about me,” Kudrow, 62, admitted in an interview with The Independent published on Saturday, April 4.

“There were certain parts of [my talent agency] that just referred to me as ‘the sixth Friend,’ ” she revealed.

And while the show became a cultural phenomenon during it’s 1994 to 2004 run — and Kudrow became the first castmember to win an Emmy, in 1998 — the Comeback actress insisted there was little expectation for her future beyond the show.

“There was no vision for me, and no expectations about the kind of career I could have,” she added. “There was just, like, ‘boy is she lucky she got on that show’.”

Free from a tightly managed career path, Kudrow explored a wide range of roles throughout the late ’90s. She appeared in films like Mother, Clockwatchers, and Analyze This, the latter marking a turning point with critical acclaim.

“And that’s when the agents and business people started circling, wanting to put me in romantic comedies and things,” she added. “I knew that wasn’t gonna work. I’m just not adorable!”